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Elmira Spring Meeting --- Program

Elmira Spring Meeting --- Program


PROGRAM

SEAWAY SECTION

MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

Spring Meeting

April 12-13, 1996
Elmira College
Elmira, New York

PROGRAM

Friday Afternoon, Holiday Inn - Riverview, Elmira

4:00 - 6:00
Meeting of the Executive Committee, Conference Room TBA (2nd floor)

Friday Evening, Holiday Inn - Riverview, Elmira

6:00 - 7:00
Social Hour (cash bar), Banquet Room (2nd floor)

7:00 - 8:30
Dinner, Banquet Room (2nd floor)

8:30 - 8:45
Presentation of The Seaway Section Distinguished Teaching Award

8:45 - 9:35
Curriculum Reform: Paradigm Shifts Affect the Students, the Faculty, the Department, the Universe,... and Everything Else!
Barbara E. Reynolds,SDS, Cardinal Stritch College and Brown University

Saturday Morning, Gibson Theater, Emerson Hall

08:00 - 11:00
Registration and Refreshments, Gibson Theater Lobby

08:40 - 08:45
Welcome, Bryan Reddick, Dean of Faculty, Elmira College

08:45 - 09:35
After a Decade of Calculus Reform, are we at the End or the Beginning?
John Kenelly, Clemson University, Past Member Finance Committee of the MAA

09:45 - 10:35
Computing with DNA,
Tom Head, SUNY at Binghamton

10:35 - 11:00
Business Meeting

11:10 - 12:00
Harry M. Gehman Lecture: Mathematical Aspects of Bubbly Flows,
Donald Drew, RPI

12:00 - 01:30
Saturday Lunch, Dining Hall (2nd floor), Campus Center

Saturday Afternoon, Gibson Theater, Emerson Hall

1:30 - 02:20
Panel Discussion on Calculus Reform
Panelists:

Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 12, Second Floor

2:30 - 5:00
Workshop: Calculus and the TI-92
Sally Fischbeck, Rochester Institute of Technology

Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 4, First Floor

2:30 - 2:55
Calculus Reform in a Traditional Mode,
Grace Orzech, Queen's University

3:00 - 3:25
Group Projects in Calculus,
Stuart Boersma, Alfred University, Project NExT Fellow

3:30 - 3:55
Workshop Approaches to Teaching Calculus and Precalculus - A SUNY Coalition
Robert Rogers, SUNY at Fredonia, and Terry Tiballi, SUNY at Oswego

4:00 - 4:25
Why not Reform the Courses before Calculus?
Jean Krichbaum and Mary Woestman, Broome Community College

Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 3, First Floor

2:30 - 2:55
A MAPLE Driven Differential Equations Course,
Constant Goutziers, SUNY at Oneonta

3:00 - 3:25
Reconstructing a Function from a Few Points,
Constance Elson and Micah Schmidt, Ithaca College

3:30 - 3:55
Reverse Mathematics or How Complicated is my Theorem,
Reed Solomon, Cornell University

4:00 - 4:25
Generating Solutions for a Special Class of Diophantine Equations,
Pasquale Arpaia, St. John Fisher College

Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 14, Second Floor

2:30 - 2:55
The Mathematical Experience: A Writing Intensive Liberal Arts Course,
Cheri Boyd, Nazareth College, Project NExT Fellow

3:00 - 3:25
Humanistic Mathematics,
Kazem Mahdavi, SUNY at Potsdam

3:30 - 3:55
Mathematical Dialogues as a Technical Tool,
Morris Orzech, Queen's University
4:00 - 4:25
Constructing Spreadsheets to Learn Mathematics,
Charlie Jacobson, Elmira College

Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 15, Second Floor

Student Talks

Organized by Robert Rogers, SUNY at Fredonia (rogers@cs.fredonia.edu)

2:30 - 2:55
Qualitative Analysis of Dynamic Systems,
Philip Darcy, St. Bonaventure University

3:00 - 3:25
Symmetric Attractors in 3-Space,
Benton McCune, SUNY at Binghamton

3:30 - 3:55
A Characterization of Complete Metacyclic Groups and GAP,
Jason Leasure, SUNY at Binghamton

4:00 - 4:25
TBA

Saturday Afternoon, Student Lounge, Harris Hall, First Floor

4:30
Refreshments


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